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Reason Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
- Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
- Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the…
- Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
- If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was…
- Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that…
- In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the…
- And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
- He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
- If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
- At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did…
- But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,…
- Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna…
- Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really…
- I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same…
- But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
- What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
- Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle…
- It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
- The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a…
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires,…
- Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough